Synonym vs. Synonymous — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Synonym and Synonymous
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Synonym
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in the same language. For example, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another; they are synonymous.
Synonymous
Having the character of a synonym
Synonymous words.
Synonymous species.
Synonym
A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language, for example shut is a synonym of close
‘the East’ was a synonym for the Soviet empire
‘shut’ is a synonym of ‘close’
Synonymous
Equivalent in connotation
"a widespread impression that ... Hollywood was synonymous with immorality" (Doris Kearns Goodwin).
Synonym
A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language.
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Synonymous
Having an identical meaning.
Synonym
A word or expression that serves as a figurative or symbolic substitute for another
"Romeo has become a synonym for any youthful lover" (Harry Levin).
Synonymous
Having a similar meaning.
Synonym
(Biology) One of two or more scientific names that have been applied to the same species or other taxonomic group.
Synonymous
(construed with with) Of, or being a synonym.
Synonym
A word whose meaning is the same as that of another word.
Synonymous
Such that both its forms yield the same sequenced protein.
Synonym
A word or phrase with a meaning that is the same as, or very similar to, another word or phrase.
“Happy” is a synonym of “glad”.
Synonymous
Having the character of a synonym; expressing the same thing; conveying the same, or approximately the same, idea.
These words consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed; for wisdom and understanding are synonymous words here.
Synonym
(zoology) Any of the formal names for a taxon, including the valid name (i.e. the senior synonym).
Synonymous
(of words) meaning the same or nearly the same
Synonym
Any name for a taxon, usually a validly published, formally accepted one, but often also an unpublished name.
Synonym
(databases) An alternative (often shorter) name defined for an object in a database.
Synonym
One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous.
All languages tend to clear themselves of synonyms as intellectual culture advances, the superfluous words being taken up and appropriated by new shades and combinations of thought evolved in the progress of society.
His name has thus become, throughout all civilized countries, a synonym for probity and philanthropy.
In popular literary acceptation, and as employed in special dictionaries of such words, synonyms are words sufficiently alike in general signification to be liable to be confounded, but yet so different in special definition as to require to be distinguished.
Synonym
An incorrect or incorrectly applied scientific name, as a new name applied to a species or genus already properly named, or a specific name preoccupied by that of another species of the same genus; - so used in the system of nomenclature (which see) in which the correct scientific names of certain natural groups (usually genera, species, and subspecies) are regarded as determined by priority.
Synonym
One of two or more words corresponding in meaning but of different languages; a heteronym.
Synonym
Two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context
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